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Scienza d’Arme (Salvator Fabris)
| Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme | |
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| On Defense, or the Science of Arms | |
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| Author(s) | Salvator Fabris |
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| Place of origin | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre(s) | Fencing manual |
| Publisher | Henrico Waltkirch |
| Publication date | 1606, 1619, 1622, 1624, 1650, 1672, 1676, 1713 |
| First english edition |
Leoni, 2005 |
| Pages | 256 pages |
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Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme ("On Defense, or the Science of Arms") is an Italian fencing manual written by Salvator Fabris in the 1590s and printed in 1606. It treats the use of the rapier, both solo and in conjunction with the cloak, dagger, and rotella shield; it also discusses unarmed defenses against the dagger. Fabris's treatise is one of the most influential rapier manuals in history, reprinted many times and copied or expanded by numerous other authors.
Publication History
Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme was first printed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1606 by Henrico Waltkirch; it included a title page and portraits engraved by Nicolaus Andrea of Flensburg, coat of arms and most illustrations by Christian IV's court artist Jan van Halbeeck, and additional illustrations by Francesco Valesio. In 1624, Pietro-Paolo Tozzi reprinted it in Fabris' native Padua under the title Della vera pratica et scienza d’armi, libri due, pera di Salvatore Fabris. In 1619, it was poorly translated into German and published in Leiden by Isack Elzevier under the title Des Kunstreichen Italiänische Fechtkunst ("The Illustrated Italian Art of Fencing"); this version also replaced the elaborate copperplate engravings of the original with rudimentary woodblock figures. This edition was reissued in ca. 1650 in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1672, Fabris' work was translated into Latin and published in Württemberg.
In 1622, Nicoletto Giganti allegedly published the first parallel text edition of Fabris' work, including both the Italian and German versions of Book II, in Vienna.[1] In 1676, Johann Joachim Hynitzsch published a new Italian-German parallel text in Leipzig, Germany, entitled Sienza e pratica d’arme; this edition included a new preface by Hynitzsch in which he denigrates all prior German translations (including the 1619 edition and the works of Hans Wilhelm Schöffer and Sebastian Heußler), but he omits the second half of Fabris' book. This edition was reprinted in Leipzig in 1713.
Fabris' treatise was translated into English by Tommaso Leoni and published through Chivalry Bookshelf in 2005 under the title Art of Dueling: Salvator Fabris' Rapier Fencing Treatise of 1606. In 2010, it was translated into Spanish by Eugenio Garcia-Salmones and published under the title La esgrima o la ciencia de las armas.
Contents
| Page | Section |
|---|---|
| 1 - 76 | Book 1 part 1 - Rapier by Salvator Fabris |
| 76 - 133 | Book 1 part 2 - Rapier and dagger by Salvator Fabris |
| 134 - 149 | Book 1 part 3 - Rapier and cloak by Salvator Fabris |
| 151 - 218 | Book 2 part 1 - Rapier by Salvator Fabris |
| 218 - 242 | Book 2 part 2 - Rapier and dagger by Salvator Fabris |
| 243 - 256 | Book 2 part 3 - Grappling, dagger, and cloak |
Gallery
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Additional Resources
- Fabris, Salvator and Leoni, Tommaso. Art of Dueling: Salvator Fabris' Rapier Fencing Treatise of 1606. Highland Village, TX: Chivalry Bookshelf, 2005. ISBN 1-891448-23-4
References
- ↑ This accusation was made by Johann Joachim Hynitzsch, who was incensed that he gave no credit to Fabris.
